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Wash Post: Democrats angry that Bush administration adopts their Iraq proposal after savaging it all week



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This is good, the story is getting out there. Though on page A13.

Interesting that Republican Senator Lugar (R-IN), a big foreign policy expert, is already shooting down Bush's timetable for the partial withdrawal (keep in mind that Bush's "withdrawal" is really a plan to keep 100,000 US troops in Iraq at least through 2008 - that's hardly a "withdrawal" plan).

Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, voiced some skepticism that the administration can reach the conditions set for withdrawing troops.

"Given current events in Baghdad in particular reported on every day quite apart from Anbar province, the violence is horrific," he said on "Face the Nation.


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